Kyla Girl
How popular is Kyla?
#579 girl name in 2025
512 baby girls were named Kyla in the US in 2025, making it the 579th most popular girl name.
Kyla popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #579 for girls (▼ 32 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 512 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-44% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #357 in 2015, #491 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2004 (2,038 girls) |
| Highest rank | #162 in 2004 |
| First recorded | 1940 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Kyla counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Kyla family of names ranked #446 for girls in 2025 (#403 the year before), with 660 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kyla | 512 | 78% |
| Kylah | 126 | 19% |
| Kilah | 17 | 3% |
| Kila | 5 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Kyla is most popular
Babies named Kyla per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Hawaii: 1.3 per 1,000 (15 girls)
- Iowa: 0.7 per 1,000 (40 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.7 per 1,000 (59 girls)
- Connecticut: 0.6 per 1,000 (37 girls)
- Nevada: 0.6 per 1,000 (27 girls)
Kyla by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 20 | #3,891 |
| 1950s | 221 | #1,783 |
| 1960s | 542 | #1,269 |
| 1970s | 1,524 | #553 |
| 1980s | 4,067 | #426 |
| 1990s | 8,366 | #253 |
| 2000s | 16,074 | #162 |
| 2010s | 9,474 | #253 |
| 2020s | 3,386 | #491 |
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Questions
- Is Kyla a boy or girl name?
- Kyla is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Kyla were girls.
- How popular is the name Kyla?
- 512 baby girls were named Kyla in the US in 2025, making it the 579th most popular girl name.
- When was Kyla most popular?
- Kyla peaked in 2004, when 2,038 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #162 in 2004.
- How many people are named Kyla?
- 43,703 babies have been named Kyla in the US since 1880. We estimate about 43,066 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 22.
- Where is Kyla most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Kyla was most common in Hawaii, at 1.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.